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Obama's U.N. Speech Was Narcissistic and Delusional

Obama’s U.N. speech, divorced from reality in almost every way, reflects the mind of a self-deluding narcissist.

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The most outrageous passages in President Obama’s U.N. speech had nothing to do with his approach to making peace in the Middle East but instead centered on a dubious, even eccentric view of America’s role in a rapidly changing world and his own place in world history.

After praising “the heart...

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